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7/23/2025, 12:31:26 AM
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>1) A high-ranking diplomat in charge of settling disputes in East Asia had a detrimentally poor grasp of the region's political geography
See pic related. Also, they declared war instead of asking Hull to clarify because they set December as an arbitrary deadline for Pearl Harbor.
>2) It was no big deal to ask Japan to give up everything they had seized from 1937 to 1941, after the colossal expenditure of human, financial and material capital?
Worth mentioning that all those expenditures were wasted on something that wasn't even formally-declared war (the early name used in Imperial meetings was, no joke, "peace operations.") Japan refused to negotiate with the Chiang Kai-shek government, and generals on the ground in China opposed the Pacific War. But God forbid Japan's military brass had to own up to their mistakes.
>1) A high-ranking diplomat in charge of settling disputes in East Asia had a detrimentally poor grasp of the region's political geography
See pic related. Also, they declared war instead of asking Hull to clarify because they set December as an arbitrary deadline for Pearl Harbor.
>2) It was no big deal to ask Japan to give up everything they had seized from 1937 to 1941, after the colossal expenditure of human, financial and material capital?
Worth mentioning that all those expenditures were wasted on something that wasn't even formally-declared war (the early name used in Imperial meetings was, no joke, "peace operations.") Japan refused to negotiate with the Chiang Kai-shek government, and generals on the ground in China opposed the Pacific War. But God forbid Japan's military brass had to own up to their mistakes.
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